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Managing forests and other ecosystems under rising threats requires thinking across wide-ranging scenarios

  • Written by Kyra Clark-Wolf, Research Scientist in Ecological Transformation, University of Colorado Boulder
imageThinking through scenarios allows land managers to prepare for many potential outcomes.Benjamin Slyngstad via USGS

In Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California, trees that have persisted through rain and shine for thousands of years are now facing multiple threats triggered by a changing climate.

Scientists and park managers once thought...

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